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Managing clusters of drug-related harms
Public Health Scotland published Guidance on the management of clusters of drug-related harms which sets out how you can prepare, monitor, identify and respond to these. This approach may be led locally by alcohol and drug partnerships or by NHS public…
Ask your MP to meet AHA next week
“Next week, we will launch a major new report on alcohol labelling in Parliament on 3 June – and your MP needs to be there,” the Alcohol Health Alliance urged. “For example, alcohol is a type 1 carcinogen – in…
Confronting Britain’s drug drivers
Sky News’s Greg Milam has been investigating who Britain’s drug drivers are. This 10-minute video shows him confronting motorists moments after they’ve been convicted, to ask why they took drugs and got behind the wheel. He also spent time with…
Millions of Brits at risk of addiction to OTC medicines
A survey for ITV’s Tonight programme found that over 1 in 3 users of non-prescription codeine could be at risk of addiction through use beyond the guidance period. Painkillers containing codeine and either ibuprofen or paracetamol can be bought at…
The UK’s real drug war
“Brutal UK drug war takes dramatic turn as lorry ploughs into home of gangster,” the Mirror headlined. “Tuesday’s dramatic incident in Edinburgh is the latest in a long line of retaliations, and part of a war between two notorious Scottish…
Sharp celebrates 21 years
The Self Help Addiction Recovery Programme, part of The Forward Trust and previously CDC, marked its 21st birthday at The Brink Cafe, bringing together past and present clients, staff, volunteers, family members and supporters. The Brink Cafe is Liverpool’s pioneering…
Addiction workers offered course to support ADHD clients
The 1st free online course enabling addiction service workers to support neurodivergent clients will be launched at Trinity College Dublin. The training was commissioned by the Citywide Drugs Crisis Campaign, with support from ADHD Ireland, after Citywide found that 21% of…
SCOTUS denial means Meta can’t avoid addiction lawsuits
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday denied to hear an appeal from Meta to get out of a case in which Vermont accused the company of knowingly designing addictive features for Instagram and Facebook that harm teens. The refusal is a…
9 habits of codependency
In this video, psychotherapist Ross Rosenberg breaks down the 9 habits that run the lives of codependents – or, as he calls them, people with Self-Love Deficit Disorder. These aren’t personality flaws. They’re survival patterns instilled in childhood by a…
